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The Asian PostSat, 14 Sep 2019 10:44:27 +0000en-GBhourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.11Was Nargis Fakhri Cheated by Bollywoodhttp://theasianpost.co.uk/was-nargis-fakhri-cheated-by-bollywood/
http://theasianpost.co.uk/was-nargis-fakhri-cheated-by-bollywood/#respondWed, 04 Sep 2019 12:14:38 +0000http://theasianpost.co.uk/?p=53278BOLLYWOOD director Imtiaz Ali may think he was being honest and of course charming when he recently announced that Deepika Padukone was his first choice for Rockstar. But this is directly insulting Nargis Fakhri who played the part bravely without knowing what she was actually doing in the film. View this post on Instagram A post shared ...

BOLLYWOOD director Imtiaz Ali may think he was being honest and of course charming when he recently announced that Deepika Padukone was his first choice for Rockstar. But this is directly insulting Nargis Fakhri who played the part bravely without knowing what she was actually doing in the film.

The very candid Nargis had once confessed to this writer that she was clueless about her character. “I didn’t know any Hindi. And then there were these long dialogues, pages and pagesof them. I delivered the lines without knowing what I was doing. The words could have been Chinese instead of Hindi.”

The feisty filter-free beauty also spoke about how let down she felt by the team of Rockstar, especially Ranbir Kapoor and Imtiaz Ali whom she considered her close friends and almost family in Mumbai during the making of the film. But they vanished when the film was released.

Now Nargis too has vanished from Mumbai and Bollywood, not very happy with the way she was treated. And one can’t blame her. Nargis is a fiercely independent-minded New Yorker. She couldn’t make the career adjustments she was asked to.

There was a time when she spoke about this A-list hero in whose film she was supposed to play one of the leading ladies. Overnight she was chucked out of the project. “What did you do?” I asked her. “It’s more about what I didn’t do,” she said and soon fled Bollywood and the country.

We never respected Nargis’s non-conformism and her fierce individuality. Could we not disrespect her work after she is gone from our entertainment industry? By saying another actress was the first choice for a role that announced Nargis’ Bollywood journey (alas, short-lived), a director disrespects the actress who has done the role.

When Nargis was doing Rockstar, her co-star Ranbir said, “Nargis will win the National award for Rockstar.”

A lot of what Ranbir says cannot be believed. So maybe he was joking. Nargis didn’t have the solid backing of a Salman Khan who could very seriously prophesise a National award for her performance in Bharat.

Nargis was treated as a bit of a joke because Bollywood was uncomfortable with her transparent no-bullshitting behaviour. They didn’t know where to slot her. Like she said, it wasn’t what did. It was what she didn’t do that did her career in.

The men’s national team had no conduct citings during 2018-19 season, the first clean sheet in seven years, and code of conduct charges at all levels dropped 74 percent, CA chairman Earl Eddings said.

“Everyone in Australian cricket is well aware that it’s not just winning that counts, but how we play the game, and the players have certainly embraced that spirit,” Eddings said.

He said umpires had also reported they were being accorded more respect from players as the new, less abrasive culture beds in.

CA’s bid to shed the “ugly Australian” image comes after cricket’s standing in the sports-mad nation reached its lowest ebb last year when players cheated by trying to alter the ball with sandpaper in a Test against South Africa in Cape Town.

In the fallout, three top players received lengthy bans, the national coach quit and numerous CA officials left the organisation.

An independent review commissioned by CA, slammed cricket’s “arrogant” culture, criticising both players and officials for chasing victory with no thought of morality or the spirit of the game.

]]>http://theasianpost.co.uk/cricket-australia-hails-players-post-scandal-conduct/feed/0Kangana prefer being a director over an actorhttp://theasianpost.co.uk/kangana-prefer-being-a-director-over-an-actor/
http://theasianpost.co.uk/kangana-prefer-being-a-director-over-an-actor/#respondTue, 25 Dec 2018 19:15:56 +0000http://theasianpost.co.uk/?p=42026BOLLYWOOD: Kangana Ranaut decided to push the envelope with her latest film Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi. Along with playing the lead, the actor also turned co-director for the film. And it looks like she found her true calling! Speaking about her experience, Ranaut revealed that she “always wanted to direct films. These days, you ...

BOLLYWOOD: Kangana Ranaut decided to push the envelope with her latest film Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi.

Along with playing the lead, the actor also turned co-director for the film. And it looks like she found her true calling!

Speaking about her experience, Ranaut revealed that she “always wanted to direct films. These days, you generally hear of directors wanting to be actors, and not the other way around. Even those actors who direct don’t really do it full-time. They feel that they have got a certain amount of acclaim and popularity as actors, so why should they give that up and only direct films. It may sound strange, but I have never really identified with being an actress. It’s not my calling, direction is.”

While directors have the pressure, it came naturally to Kangana which she didn’t expect to happen either.

“It’s actually surprising even to me how comfortable I feel being a director on set, even when I am sweating buckets and am surrounded by 500 people and everyone’s screaming at the same time! There’s something about directing a film that’s so gratifying, even though it’s a worker’s life. An actor is just one part of the whole orchestra of filmmaking and it kind of makes me feel inadequate, that I am not doing enough as a creative person.”

Does this mean Manikarnika will be Kangana’s last project as an actor? Not at all as the actor says, “It’s not that I don’t want to act in films with other directors – I am doing Ashwiny’s (Iyer Tiwari) Panga and Prakash’s film (Kovelamudi, called Mental Hai Kya) right now. I like acting, but I always felt a part of me was dying somewhere because I wasn’t being utilised totally. I felt like a part of me was rotting away because I wasn’t being able to express myself as a director. When I was just an actor on this film, I didn’t know what was happening with the rest of the film and it was frustrating. A lot of mishaps happened on set… I injured myself several times, I broke my forehead and I was worried about how I would take this forward as an actor.

“But when I got down to directing, there was no pressure… there were only goals. For me, the director is the hero of a film and directing is my first love,”

She added, “Honestly, it’s actually a relief to just be an actor… to be a small part of a huge canvas. Acting, for me, is actually like a holiday (laughs). I can sit prettily in my van and go out only when I am called for my shot, I don’t have to bother about anything else. When I was shooting Panga, I was so busy with the VFX of Manikarnika that I was constantly Facetiming with my team. Imagine how overrated actors are! I could actually do a full-fledged role as an actor and I had so much time that I did the entire VFX work of an epic film alongside!”

Kangana then pulled a Kangana and called out her fellow actors in Bollywood for their entitled behaviour.

]]>http://theasianpost.co.uk/kangana-prefer-being-a-director-over-an-actor/feed/0Virat Kohli world’s ‘worst behaved player’, says Naseeruddin Shahhttp://theasianpost.co.uk/virat-kohli-worlds-worst-behaved-player-says-naseeruddin-shah/
http://theasianpost.co.uk/virat-kohli-worlds-worst-behaved-player-says-naseeruddin-shah/#respondTue, 18 Dec 2018 10:56:44 +0000http://theasianpost.co.uk/?p=41623MUMBAI: Days after Virat Kohli provoked a social media storm after telling a critic to leave the country for criticising his batting, Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah has criticised the batsman for his behaviour. Naseeruddin Shah in a post on his Facebook account, said Virat Kohli is the world’s worst behaved player. The film actor said, ...

MUMBAI: Days after Virat Kohli provoked a social media storm after telling a critic to leave the country for criticising his batting, Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah has criticised the batsman for his behaviour.

Naseeruddin Shah in a post on his Facebook account, said Virat Kohli is the world’s worst behaved player.

The film actor said, “Virat Kohli is not only the world’s best batsman but also the world’s worst behaved player.”

Shah went on to say, “Kohli’s cricketing brilliance pales beside his arrogance and bad manners.. And I have no intention of leaving the country by the way.”

]]>http://theasianpost.co.uk/virat-kohli-worlds-worst-behaved-player-says-naseeruddin-shah/feed/0Sex scandal escalates as Labour activist says she was raped at party eventhttp://theasianpost.co.uk/sex-scandal-escalates-as-labour-activist-says-she-was-raped-at-party-event/
http://theasianpost.co.uk/sex-scandal-escalates-as-labour-activist-says-she-was-raped-at-party-event/#respondTue, 31 Oct 2017 18:26:12 +0000http://theasianpost.co.uk/?p=22039LONDON: A Labour activist has claimed she was raped at a party event and then advised by a senior official not to report the attack because it could “damage” her career. Bex Bailey, 25, has alleged she was attacked by a senior party figure, who was not an MP, at an event in 2011 when ...

LONDON: A Labour activist has claimed she was raped at a party event and then advised by a senior official not to report the attack because it could “damage” her career.

Bex Bailey, 25, has alleged she was attacked by a senior party figure, who was not an MP, at an event in 2011 when she was 19-years-old.

She said she approached someone at the Labour Party headquarters to ask about reporting the attack but was discouraged from going to the police.

Labour said it would launch an independent investigation into the claims.

Ms Bailey decided to speak out about the event to BBC Radio 4, waiving her automatic right to anonymity granted to victims or alleged victims of sexual offences.

She told Carolyn Quinn she was doing so in order to urge senior politicians to make it easier for people to report in-party harassment or assaults.

Her interview comes in the wake of scores of accusations against politicians and party member subjecting staff members to sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour.

Parliament and the Prime Minister have been under intense pressure to clamp down on such behaviour.

Ms Bailey believes there should be an independent and unbiased body that could deal with such allegations without the influence of political loyalty.

The former member of Labour’s National Executive Committee told the programme that after the alleged attack she “tried to pretend it hadn’t happened” and did not report it to the police.

“I was scared, I felt ashamed, I know that the Labour Party, like any family, loves a good gossip – and I didn’t want people to know and I also was worried that I wouldn’t be believed if I did,” she said.

Two years later she approached a party official and spoke to them about what had happened.

“It took me a while to sum up the courage to tell anyone in the party,” she said.

“But when I did, I told a senior member of staff, who told me… or it was suggested to me that I not report it, I was told that if I did it might damage me – and that might be their genuine view, it might be that that was the case in which case that shows that we have a serious problem in politics with this issue anyway.”

Ms Bailey said she was “not signposted to anyone” that could give her good advice about the incident and said there was no apparent procedure in place to report it.

“I don’t think I was even given a cup of tea at the time,” she said. “It was quite a horrible experience and this is why I’ve been fighting so hard for changes to the way that we do this.”

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Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:45:56 +0000http://theasianpost.co.uk/?p=7156Police-style body cameras are being worn by teachers in England to stop pupil disruption. Two schools are taking part in the pilot scheme, according to Tom Ellis, a criminal justice researcher from the University of Portsmouth. He says all teachers are wearing the cameras during a three-month trial period. He cannot name them, but told ...

Police-style body cameras are being worn by teachers in England to stop pupil disruption. Two schools are taking part in the pilot scheme, according to Tom Ellis, a criminal justice researcher from the University of Portsmouth. He says all teachers are wearing the cameras during a three-month trial period. He cannot name them, but told Newsbeat that both are “normal” state secondary schools. He says: “The teachers will be wearing the cameras very visibly, so there’s no attempt to be covert in any way. “The idea is that everyone is aware that the camera is there and is being used for a specific incident. “Where the teacher feels there’s a threat to themselves or to another student, then there will be evidence of that incident.” It seems that the cameras won’t be rolling constantly, with teachers told to switch them on whenever they want to record something. Mr Ellis says the scheme is not all focused on controlling bad behaviour. He suggests that teachers could ask permission to film positive events too. “This could help reduce reaction against them.” This comes as the Times Educational Supplement (TES) has surveyed 600 teachers about the body cameras. More than a third (37.7%) said they would wear them – and the main reason they gave was for gathering evidence of student behaviour. But that leaves 62.3% who were not so keen. Their main concerns were their own privacy, being spied on by management and privacy for the pupils.